Lebanese rocket society is not only an investigation into the history of the lebanese space program, but also a reflection on the notions of ambition, destruction, and reconstruction. The directors decide to follow a movie star, catherine deneuve and a friend, actor and artist rabih mroue. With this, we began doing indepth research and making a film on the lebanese rocket society. The lebanese movie database is an initiative founded by the media booth aiming at archiving posters and information about lebanese movies. In this film by joana hadjithomas and khalil joreige imagination. The lebanese rocket society is a 2012 franco lebanese documentary film directed by joana hadjithomas and khalil joreige and released theatrically on 1 may 20.
Apr 01, 2014 today is the last day of my dressember 2014 challenge, if you dont know what it is, you can check my previous post here i kept the best dress for the last, as its a reveal of a collaboration with the creative sarah bond, you can see her latest work that she showcased in the christmas trunk show that she did in white sur white here. My career path started in regional print journalism with some regional tv thrown in, too. In the intervening years, he has appeared on radio 4s today programme and with a degree of randomness befitting the man bbc2s working lunch. The israeli air force conducted a strike in lebanon between beirut and sidon on friday, a day after rockets struck northern israel, the israeli defense forces said friday.
Throughout the film, hadjithomas and joreige map out the history of modern lebanon from within a void of forgetfulness. In the early 60s, during the cold war and apex of pan arabism, a group of student and researcher enters the race to space and create the lebanese rocket society. According to unhcr, the number of syrian refugees in lebanon increased from around 250,000 in early 20 to 1,000,000 in late 2014. The intention of the group was to create and launch rockets for space study and. Hakawati works with storytellers with distinctive vision and enables new talent to take creative risks. The words thats how i imagine it from the supposedly wellinformed directors of a documentary do not inspire confidence. The lebanese rocket society 2012 in 1960s lebanon, manoug manougian leads a group of scientists, students and army experts to develop a space program for their country. Rocket fired from lebanon sparks israeli retaliation. The nation is responsible for an array of films since the lebanese civil war, and its showing no signs of slowing down. The film industry continued to prosper in the 1960s. Mar 17, 20 after making my first turns on lebanese snow seven years ago, i made a pledge to myself to return one day. Mar 29, 20 the strange tale of the lebanese space race. After all, the chance to ski at the middle easts largest resort, farayamzaar, in the.
A perfect day 2005 3 merveilles le temps quil nous. It was at that point in time that the societys name was changed to the lebanese rocket society lrs, and the rockets were labeled cedar, the national emblem of lebanon. The lebanese rocket society trailer arabic subtitles. The lebanese rocket society directors set to shoot the. The bfc has given itself until may 15 to complete its consultation. Utopian students enter the space race and create the. Lebanese visual artists and filmmaking duo joana hadjithomas and khalil joreige the lebanese rocket society are set to shoot a new highconcept drama with the working title the. From 1960 to 1966, a space project was undertaken in lebanon. Ive been a writer specialising in film for more than 30 years and a lover of film all my life. A refugee protest camp in vienna and the european unions processes of racialization, seclusion, and discrimination we ourselves, the refugees, make the demonstration, and we are the ones who want it. A museum of immortality is comprised of works by more than fifty artists, writers, curators, filmmakers and architects who took part in and contributed to the 2014 home workspace program, presented in an architectonic environment designed by nikolaus hirsch and michel muller. Sorti en 20 au cinema, the lebanese rocket society est aujourdhui disponible en dvd. Berberian sound studio peter strickland uk few british directors roll like peter strickland.
Dec 11, 2019 captain joseph wehbe of the lebanese military, joined the club and facilitated for our team the use of the workshop whenever needed. Lebanons modest contribution to the 60s space race the society formed at beiruts haigazian university by professor manoug manougian. Despite yr nattering about hezbollah wanting to exterminate israel, what hezbollah really wants is both israels return of shebaa farms and lebanese prisoners. Dox and doha tribeca film festivals offers a fascinating delve into history, and in the sure hands of directors joana hadjithomas and khalil joreige it is a. Key figure of contemporary lebanese cinema, along with khalil joreige, with whom she has worked in partnership since the beginning of her career, joana hadjithomas studied already with joreige in france and in the usa. Sas global forum 20 poster and video presentations. Additionally, lebanese producers from 1945 up to 1951 played an influential role in the first stages of production of iraqi cinema. Paper 247 20 so many films, so little time lisa eckler, lisa eckler consulting inc. Cambridge film festival unveils lineup news screen. In the early 60s, at the height of the cold war and pan arabism, a group of utopian students enter the space race and create the lebanese rocket society. See more ideas about movies, movie posters and film.
Dearborn from the arab new wave to a true spaceage tale lost in time, the 2014 arab film festival offers fascinating new titles from one of the most currently. Meet the filmmaker who defied lebanese censors rana eid is a lebanese filmmaker whose latest documentary panoptic is a snapshot of a postwar generation searching for. The complete list heres everything in the running in the best foreign language film category, with descriptions and links to trailers. Dec 18, 2019 finally, chapter 5 focuses on the artistic outcomes of hadjithomas and joreiges research on the lebanese rocket society discussed above. But history has overlooked a third space race contestant.
Lebanons modest contribution to the 60s space race is the subject of this 2012 documentary. Dec 29, 20 sunday, december 29, 20 rocket fired from lebanon sparks israeli retaliation jerusalem in the first border flareup of its kind in four months, a katyusha rocket fired from lebanon struck northern israel on sunday, triggering a heavy artillery barrage from israeli forces in response. Le top joana hadjithomas the lebanese rocket society 20 3. Daddy day care pg the metamorphosis of eddie murphy from edgy, profanityspewing standup comic to allround family comedian appears to be complete with this pleasant, engaging and, frankly, surprisingly enjoyable flick. We needed to understand what kind of dreams people have had for our region.
Meet the filmmaker who defied lebanese censors rana eid is a lebanese filmmaker whose latest documentary panoptic. In 20, the lebanese forces party, the kataeb party and the free patriotic movement voiced concerns that the countrys sectarian based political system is being undermined by the influx of syrian refugees. She and koreige of course both graduated from the university of nanterre and, later, from new york in film direction. Group portrait taken before the launch of cedar 3, 1962. The lebanese rocket society is a 2012 franco lebanese documentary film directed by joana hadjithomas and khalil joreige and released theatrically on 1.
Usf students will soar to cross the karman line feature. Then there was an intense period of freelance writing for a wide range of film magazines before i joined thethen national museum of photography, film. Hakawati is committed to the broader visibility of independent film, giving platforms to quieter voices and unique individual often minority perspectives in relation to a dominant whole. Lebanese rocket society reorient middle eastern arts and. The film, the lebanese rocket society, is also a poignant reminder of what could have been in a country that has been ravaged by war in the intervening years. We wanted to make a film about dreamers, says the lebanese codirector joana hadjithomas. The former is by nicolas rey not a typo, also the other guys dead, and is a rigorous, shag carpet confrontation of tyranny, technique, and machines. Last year, nadine labakis film capernaum was nominated for an academy award. Elias presents a gripping reading of the lebanese rocket society 20, a ninetyfiveminute documentary film, and its exploration of the fissures in shared and sharable imaginaries that had come to. Take one is a british online film magazine published in cambridge. The lebanese rocket society saves a fascinating chapter in engineering history.
As middle eastern countries plan nuclear futures, the film raises delicate questions about the. He has written on film and tv for the telegraph since 2003, for the guardian since 2012, and for the readers digest since 2016. Sep 05, 2012 the toronto international film festival has completed the entire lineup for its its 37th edition for 2012, tiff has 289 feature films and 83 shorts 20 more features than last year, including. The lebanese rocket society is a project that includes a film as well as several works of art, including the reproduction of one of the rockets in the form of a sculpture. Lebanons part in the space race video between 1960 and 1966, a group of university students set out to build a space rocket. Coproductions with egypt and syria were common in this period, which was considered the golden age of the lebanese film industry. Nov 25, 20 theres a medical clinic, who opened its doors recently in lebanon, that combines medical expertise with stateoftheart technology, where they use stem cell therapy, other cell therapies and a range of treatments to cure diseases, alleviate symptoms, relieve pain and improve the quality of life of their patients, on the inside and out. Octiber 12th, 20 the telegraph psychedelic art is a phrase now quaintly evocative of the late sixties, conjuring up memories of trippyhippy album covers lurid with swirls of colour. The lebanese rocket society during the sixties, america and the ussr competed for supremacy of the solar system.